ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume VI, Issue 268, 10 April 1886, Page 4

ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

London, March 14. It, lias been officially announced thai Sir Charles Warren will be appointed Commissioner ot Police. The steamer Missouri, which went ashore at ITollyhead during recent gales, was lifted from the position and then plumped against the rocks. It is be he veil she will he a total wreck.

The Conservatives at Birmingham h.ive decided to contest at the next election all seven districts of the city, every one of which is now represented by Liberals.

lii Bradford twenty persons have been bitteu by mad dogs, and others fear they may be attacked by the same disease. Ii is probable that two patients will proceed to I'd is to receive treatment from Dr Vastenr. A Hoys Ornhannge, at Balad, in the province ot Arniherg, was destroyed by lire, when five boys perished and thirty were injured. The stationinaster. whose neglect caused the Monte Carlo railway accident, has committed suicide. It is expected that the Powers will withdraw representatives from Athens unless Greece d : sarnis. Kinc Alpin, of Servia, and the Sultan of Turkey have ratified the Servia-Bul-garian Treaty.

At a meeting of unemployed, held at Hackney, there were 15000 present. The upshot of strike on the steamer Mariposa was that she sailed with a full crew of non-Union men. The American wool growers are asking Congress for restoration of the tariff rates of 18C.7, which they say gave them fair living profits. They now allege they cannot grow wool in competition with KnjJish growers on Australian hnds.

London entitles state that the appoint ment of Gladstone's son to a valuable rectorship was a compliment paid to the Lord Chancellor without the knowledge of the Prime Minister. The latter objected and the appointment was recalled, but not before the Parnellites made ii the basis ot' furious attacks on the Premier. The London and North-Western Railway have discharged 1000 navvies, mostly Irishmen. The officers of the Company explained that depression in trade made the action necessary. Louise Hart, a rich procuress, in the "West End of London, was committed for trial on march 9th, charged with providing young girls for aristocrats. A despatch from an official source indicates that the Queen has been persuaded to modify her determination to remain in private. She has promised to be present at the public ceremonies of laying the corner stone ot the new College of Physicians, the driving of the first pile of the new Lower Bridge, and the opening of the Colonial Exhibition. She, however, decisively declined to hold court at Buckingham Palace even for a short perod in the Spring. Advices from Zanzibar report that two men, who returned to that place from Nzegand, report that they saw Bishop Hannington with 50 men of his expedition taken out lor execution. Sir Charles Dilke has decided to persevere in his policy of silence in regard to the serious disclosures made during a recent divorce case. He will make no explanation of his conduct to the Chelsea electors. lie has gone to the South of of France, where he will remain six months. Mrs Crawford has gone in seclusion in Italy. Labouchere, during the afternoon debate on the Government Estimates, moved to reduce the grant for the maintenance of royal parks belonging to or used exclusively for royalty. The motion caused a lively controversy, but it was finally carried against the Government by 131 to 114.

GENERAL SUMMARY. (Dates from 1 mope to March 12.) Karlv in March tremendous snowstorms prevailed in the north of England, suspending tr: flic on ninny railways. They ceased on the 4th. The suffering among the passengers on the various trains which have been snowbound was very great. Some of the trains were embedded in the snow drifts forty-eight hours. The loss of cattle in transit was enormous. A mob of 800 attempted to run riot in the streets of Birmingham (February 15) and pilliige the shops, but the police were prepared aud promptly repressed the attempt. The unemployed working men of Yarmouth nuu'.e a riotous demonstration on the 15th February. Queen Victoria will go to the Riviera in April with Princess Christina. John B. Gough, the famous temperance lecturer, died on February 18 at Frankfort, Pa. He was born at Sandgate, Kent, England, in 1817. His father was a private soldier in the British army, and served under Wellington in the Peninsula. The marriage of Earl Cairns (Lord Garmoyle) to MissEdele Grant, daughter of Mrs Beach Grant, of New York, will take place in London in July. Cora Pearl, the well-known Farasian demi-monde, claims to be the daughter of Professor Nicholas Couch, the author of Kathleen Mavourneen. Howard Vincent, M.P., for Sheffield, has been offered the office of Chief Police l onunisMoner ot the city o London. Vincent once held the office ot Director ot Ciiminal Investigation.